Jeffrey Tomkins, PhD

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Director of Research - Genetics — Institute for Creation Research

Dr. Tomkins earned a master’s degree in plant science in 1990 from the University of Idaho, where he performed research in plant hormones. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Clemson University in 1996. While at Clemson, he worked as a research technician in a plant breeding/genetics program, with a research focus in the area of quantitative and physiological genetics in soybean. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked at a genomics institute and became a faculty member in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Clemson. He had become a Christian as an undergraduate at Washington State University in 1982, with a goal to eventually work as a scientist and author in the creation science field. In 2009, Dr. Tomkins joined the Institute for Creation Research as Research Associate. He was appointed Director of Life Sciences in 2016 and Director of Research in 2020. He is the primary author of The Design and Complexity of the Cell and Chimps and Humans: A Geneticist Discovers DNA Evidence That Challenges Evolution, and a contributor to Guide to Creation Basics and Creation Basics & Beyond.

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Chimps and Humans

In Chimps and Humans, Dr. Tomkins dismantles evolutionary assertions of a close human-chimp relationship and shows that not only are the human and chi...

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The Design and Complexity of the Cell

Dr. Tomkins and his contributing colleagues have provided an excellent resource that will document and explain the intricate processes of cells and gi...

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Creation Basics & Beyond, 2nd Ed.

Creation or evolution? It is very important we understand the truth about origins. Christians need to know if the Genesis account of creation is truth...

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